They make excellent blood trackers or seaarch and rescue dogs. One problem with actually hunting with them has already be mentioned. They will pick a old track and this can be a problem. Bloodhounds have such a strong drive to locate what they are tracking that they will run themselves to death tracking it. They do not know when to give up. This is a good and bad thing. There are a few people I have heard of out in the nw that use them some on big cats. They will track them down and bay them. Since the big cats will eventually climb a tree or back themselves into a rock cliff they do not have to worry about it running out of the country and the dog following it.